Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page one news stories and editorials on the topic. How then could you accept an ad of more than half a page in last Wednesday's Crimson from De Beers Consolidated Mines, possibly the biggest exploiter of black miners in South Africa? The prices for those diamond rings no doubt bring the firm quite tidy profits (probably larger than the ad brought you). And, no doubt, the company would like to continue making those profits and exploiting those miners. You're helping. Ladies and gentlemen of The Crimson, I think that's called hypocrisy. H.T. Werbie...
Price says he respects the Richard Nixon he saw at San Clemente at the beginning of November just as much as the private citizen he first met ten years ago, when Nixon was preparing his second run for the presidency. A self-described "libertarian conservative," Price does not doubt that Nixon obstructed justice while President. But according to the moral calculus the former speechwriter employs, Richard Nixon acted during Watergate in the same way past presidents would have acted, and the greatness of Nixon's presidential initiatives made his criminal actions worthy of forgiveness. As Price writes...
...think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have won re-election, even if he had immediately made everyone walk the plank...
...says he felt no sense of "moral outrage" when White House chief of staff Alexander Haig called him into his office one morning late in July 1974, and presented Price with a transcript of the soon-to-be released "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, which demonstrated beyond doubt that Nixon had participated in the coverup from the start...
...plane that MacCracken referred to was the Spirit of St. Louis. MacCracken said Robertson had "assured me that there would not be another repeat performance and that he would phone St. Louis and give instructions that you were not to take off for Chicago if there was the slightest doubt about the weather at that end of the route...